The USA in the Making of the USSR: The Washington Conference 1921-22 and ... - Paul Dukes - Google Books

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The USA's contribution to the making of the USSR was accidental. In the belief that the Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic could not survive, American statesmen strove to keep the former Tsarist empire intact for a non-communist successor regime…